Gerhard Obuch

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Gerhard Obuch (born March 14, 1884 in Lauenburg i. Pom. , † February 17, 1960 in Rauenthal ) was a German socialist politician and lawyer.

Life

Obuch, the son of a judge and a nobleman, completed his studies in law and social sciences in Leipzig , Berlin and Königsberg after attending the humanistic grammar school . Since 1906 a member of the SPD , Obuch practiced as a lawyer in Düsseldorf from 1912, and in Berlin from 1914. During the First World War he was an opponent of the SPD's truce policy , employed for a year in the administration of the areas occupied by Germany in Eastern Europe and joined the USPD in 1917 .

During the November Revolution he was a temporary member of the Berlin Executive Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils , he represented Georg Ledebour in court after his imprisonment as a result of the Spartacus uprising and was elected to the Prussian state parliament in the same year , to which he belonged until 1933. Within the USPD, Obuch belonged to the part that in 1920 refused to join the Communist International and to unite with the KPD . In 1922 he also rejected the unification of the USPD with the SPD and was elected to the executive committee of the "rest of the USPD" led by Ledebour and Theodor Liebknecht , which he left to join the KPD that same year.

Obuch, who was also a city councilor in Düsseldorf from 1921 to 1925, now took up his state parliament mandate for the KPD, was elected to the board of the Red Aid in 1923 and was a member of the KPD's legal central office headed by Felix Halle . A focus of Obuch's legal work was the representation of accused KPD members.

After the NSDAP came to power , Obuch was imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp until the end of 1933 and was then no longer able to work as a lawyer. Initially active in road construction, he worked as an accountant from 1935 and as a legal advisor for an industrial company from 1938. Living in western Germany after 1945, Obuch was no longer politically active.

Fonts (selection)

  • Your defense in court . Tribunal-Verlag, Berlin 1931.
  • House search. How are you behaving? Tribunal-Verlag, Berlin 1931.

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

  • The penal system, its physical and psychological effects. Volume II (1926), Issue 1 (April), pp. 28-35 digitized

literature

  • Short biography in: Hermann Weber : The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 238f.
  • Obuch, Gerhard . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .